Ancestral Science

Mar 31 2025 37 ep. 75 mins 76
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Exploring and Sharing the depth of Scientific Knowledge within Stories that humans have been gifted from the Star, Land, and Animal Ancestors for thousands of years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hunting Mathematics

Mar 31 2025 104 mins  
The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with PHILIP STEVENS, San Carlos Apache, Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Idaho, about (global/Western) mathematics being like pornography or taxidermy, non-Euclidian tessellations in mesquite wood stacking, patterns of the Land, Apache ontologies, academic camouflage, and focusing on how to take care o

Music is a Universal Language of Frequency

Mar 17 2025 105 mins  
The Ancestral Science Podcast wanted to support our friend JUNO AWARD NOMINEE Walter McDonald White Bear....so... we decided to gather some friends, a few guitars, and some pizza. Along with some impromptu riffs and freestyle we got to chat about embodying music, spirit as an additional voice/instrument, connections between goosebumps and music, frequencies

Pullin’ Cedar, Ancestral Trees, & the Fish Wars

Mar 03 2025 70 mins  
We were honoured to be recording in a cedar longhouse on the ancestral Nisqually lands of Hweqwidi HANFORD MCCLOUD. The pod chatted with Hanford alongside relatives Juan Carlos Chavez, Alvin Harvey, and a furry friend for support. Amongst the aroma of cedar and displays of relational and practical science of canoe and basket-making, we chatted about cedar bark as insect repell

Nehiyaw Science of Love & Death from Grandmother Scientists

Feb 17 2025 53 mins  
The Ancestral Science Podcast was honoured to be gifted some time with TERRI CARDINAL from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. We chatted about Nêhiyaw teachings of death and dying, the science of soothing when grieving, connection between hair and senses / love and grief, death as a transition not an end, disconnecting fear from death, and the how jokes and laughter at the seeming

Space Justice & Cosmic Relationality2

Feb 03 2025 94 mins  
With increased conversations about journeying beyond Earth, to Mars and beyond....we thought we would re-release this timely episode we recorded in Fall 2023. We were grateful to speak with Dr. ALVIN HARVEY a Navajo/Diné Scientist about Space Justice, the ethics of travelling beyond Earth, what it means to be in relationship with Space, how space is ALIVE, and why h

Change Making, Anishnawbek Mathematics, & Sturgeon Legs

Jan 20 2025 64 mins  
Join the Ancestral Science Pod and learn from CHEYENNE SEGO, about about the scientific significance of the teachings of gut feelings, Anishinabek Mathematics, stories of the time when sturgeon had legs and beavers were giants, economic reconciliation, and the resurgence of Indigenous peoples, science, and the seven sacred teachings.Cheyenne generously donated her honoraria to Na-M

Healing Frequencies of Jokes, Scents, Movement, & a Crackling Fire

Jan 06 2025 86 mins  
The Ancestral Science podcast got to learn from Dr. Michael YELLOW BIRD, by first beginning with a guided meditation to ground ourselves and focus on the present, then we explored a mathematical equation for decolonization, how Auntie jokes can protect the brain, the effects of colonization on our bodies and brains, the smell of bacon and well-being, mindfulness and syste

Pt2- Reconnecting the human in Science, Law, Health, & Society

Dec 23 2024 55 mins  
The Ancestral Science podcast fam ALL got to chat with Sahtu Dene mother, wife, activist, political organizer, and podcast host MICHELLE ROBINSON (they/them) about the game and everyday application of mathematics, how nature talks back to us, the silence of snow as a teaching, dogs as ancestors, natural law vs. colonial law, colonization,  addictions and uranium, and how

Pt1- Reconnecting the human in Science, Law, Health, & Society

Dec 09 2024 55 mins  
The Ancestral Science podcast fam ALL got to chat with Sahtu Dene mother, wife, activist, political organizer, and podcast host MICHELLE ROBINSON (they/them) about the game and everyday application of mathematics, how nature talks back to us, the silence of snow as a teaching, dogs as ancestors, natural law vs. colonial law, colonization,  addictions and uranium, and how

Gravitational Waves from the Blackfoot MacGyver

Nov 25 2024 78 mins  
The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to chat with Blackfoot Physicist COREY GRAY about inspiring to be the "Blackfoot MacGyver," the connection between the Blackfoot language and Albert Einstein, how we are all a part of space-time, chirps and hairy neutron stars, supermassive blackholes and wolf eyes, and the importance of seeing people that "look like you" in science and ph